Today and many times in the past, I was brutally attacked by Windows Update. A client of mine was having an issue with a VB macro and, an hour into fixing the problem, the computer decided to automatically restart to apply a Windo...
You can pin folders to the Windows 7 taskbar with the TaskBarPinner software. However, TaskBarPinner doesn’t have options that pin folders to the Start menu. Nevertheless, folders can still be pinned to the Windows 7 Start menu wi...
The MS Office 2010 office suite packages, such as Word and Excel, have a few image editing options. Among them is a cropping tool with which you can cut out areas from your document pictures without any image editing software. The...
Those who usually open multiple software applications, in Windows 7, should install Windows 7 App Launcher. That’s a utility with which you can open multiple software packages at once with a hotkey or Windows 7 Jump Lists. With th...
Excel 2010, like other MS Office applications, has plenty of keyboard shortcuts. There are Excel hotkeys for formulas, spreadsheet formatting, inserting and editing data and more besides. These are a few of the more notable hotkey...
We didn’t think that Windows XP finally saying goodbye and not getting software updates in the future would be this bad so quickly. Perhaps Microsoft didn’t calculate, or miscalculated, as there is already a major security bug tha...
Whilst Windows includes hide folder options, such options are hardly full-proof. There’s a much more secure way to hide, or disguise, your folders as shortcuts which few would guess you have documents or software in. The tri...
There are a variety of file formats for videos, and you can convert video file formats from one to another if required. You could do that with Microsoft packages such as Windows DVD Maker and Movie Maker, or alternative third-part...
You can add the Windows 8 Metro style to Windows 7 with the freeware Immersive Explorer. That’s a file manager alternative to Explorer which mimics Windows 8 Metro. Its graphical hardware acceleration displays fluid animations and...
The Windows Vista and 7 desktops include system shortcut icons such as the Recycle Bin. When you right-click on the system shortcut icons and select Properties, there is no option that changes their icons as you would find on soft...
If you’re looking for a way to create image thumbnails from your video files, add the freeware Thumbnail Me 3.0 software to Windows XP/Vista/7 and 8. That’s a software package which scans video clips and presents you w...
If you have opened a large OpenOffice spreadsheet document, it might be handy to keep some of its rows and columns stationary. OpenOffice Calc has an option with which you can freeze selected columns and rows so that they always r...
MS Word 2010 has, like many software packages, a variety of keyboard shortcuts. With the keyboard shortcuts you can select a variety of options that aren’t visible on its menus and Ribbon. These are a few of the more notable Word ...
Microsoft may have fully acquire the Nokia mobile division but that doesn’t mean it’s forgetting it’s main product, the Windows platform. Nokia, now called Microsoft Mobile, is just one part of the Redmond giant. As for the OS div...
This is one of those rumor humor stories where both sides of the conversation are stupid as shit. Excuse my French.
